Anthony P. Walker

20.8k citations

60 papers · 2.8k · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
Soil Science top 2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 41
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 33
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 18
- Climate variability and models 15
Plant Science 20
- Plant responses to elevated CO2 10
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies 5

Co-authors: Stan D. Wullschleger (6 shared papers)J. M. Warren (12 shared papers)Colleen M. Iversen (8 shared papers)Richard J. Norby (13 shared papers)Paul J. Hanson (8 shared papers)Lianhong Gu (7 shared papers)F. I. Woodward (2 shared papers)Martin G. De Kauwe (12 shared papers)
Journals: New Phytologist (9 papers)Global Change Biology (8 papers)Geoscientific model development (3 papers)Nature Communications (3 papers)Biogeosciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Germany

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Anthony P. Walker

59 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Anthony P. Walker's Hit Papers

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Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980 2022 · 223 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Communications
2014 Ecology and Evolution

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1	The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – V_cmax and J_max – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta‐analysis and modeling study Ecology and Evolution ·Anthony P. Walker, Andrew P. Beckerman, Lianhong Gu, Jens Kattge, Lucas A. Cernusak, Tomas F. Domingues, Joanna C. Scales, Georg Wohlfahrt, Stan D. Wullschleger, F. I. Woodward Hit paper breakdown →	2014	376
2	The unseen iceberg: plant roots in arctic tundra New Phytologist ·Colleen M. Iversen, V. L. Sloan, Patrick F. Sullivan, E. S. Euskirchen, A. David McGuire, Richard J. Norby, Anthony P. Walker, J. M. Warren, Stan D. Wullschleger	2014	242
3	Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models Nature Climate Change ·Belinda E. Medlyn, Sönke Zaehle, Martin G. De Kauwe, Anthony P. Walker, Michael C. Dietze, Paul J. Hanson, Thomas Hickler, Atul K. Jain, Yiqi Luo, William J. Parton, I. Colin Prentice, Peter Thornton, Shusen Wang, Ying‐Ping Wang, Ensheng Weng, Colleen M. Iversen, Heather R. McCarthy, J. M. Warren, Ram Oren, Richard J. Norby	2015	238
4	Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980 Nature Communications ·Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, R. A. Houghton, Chaoqun Lü, Hanqin Tian, Evgenios Agathokleous, Giri Kattel, Stephen Sitch, Daniel S. Goll, Xu Yue, Anthony P. Walker, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou Hit paper breakdown →	2022	223
5	Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models – evaluation and recommendations New Phytologist ·J. M. Warren, Paul J. Hanson, Colleen M. Iversen, Jitendra Kumar, Anthony P. Walker, Stan D. Wullschleger	2014	215
6	Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free‐air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) experiments New Phytologist ·Richard J. Norby, Martin G. De Kauwe, Tomas F. Domingues, Remko A. Duursma, David S. Ellsworth, Daniel S. Goll, David M. Lapola, Kristina Luus, A. R. MacKenzie, Belinda E. Medlyn, Ryan Pavlick, Anja Rammig, Benjamin Smith, Rick Thomas, Kirsten Thonicke, Anthony P. Walker, Xiaojuan Yang, Sönke Zaehle	2015	159
7	Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis Nature Communications ·Xiangzhong Luo, Trevor F. Keenan, Jing M. Chen, Holly Croft, I. Colin Prentice, Nicholas G. Smith, Anthony P. Walker, Han Wang, Rong Wang, Chonggang Xu, Yao Zhang	2021	112
8	The impact of alternative trait‐scaling hypotheses for the maximum photosynthetic carboxylation rate (V_cmax) on global gross primary production New Phytologist ·Anthony P. Walker, Tristan Quaife, Peter M. van Bodegom, Martin G. De Kauwe, Trevor F. Keenan, Joanna Joiner, Mark R. Lomas, Natasha MacBean, Chonggang Xu, Xiaojuan Yang, F. I. Woodward	2017	99
9	Predicting long‐term carbon sequestration in response to CO₂ enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ? Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Anthony P. Walker, Sönke Zaehle, Belinda E. Medlyn, Martin G. De Kauwe, Shinichi Asao, Thomas Hickler, William J. Parton, Daniel Ricciuto, Ying‐Ping Wang, David Wårlind, Richard J. Norby	2015	84
10	Parametric Controls on Vegetation Responses to Biogeochemical Forcing in the CLM5 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Rosie A. Fisher, William R. Wieder, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Charles D. Koven, Keith W. Oleson, Chonggang Xu, Joshua B. Fisher, Mingjie Shi, Anthony P. Walker, David M. Lawrence	2019	79
11	Using models to guide field experiments: a priori predictions for the CO₂ response of a nutrient‐ and water‐limited native Eucalypt woodland Global Change Biology ·Belinda E. Medlyn, Martin G. De Kauwe, Sönke Zaehle, Anthony P. Walker, Remko A. Duursma, Kristina Luus, Mikhail Mishurov, Bernard Pak, Benjamin Smith, Ying‐Ping Wang, Xiaojuan Yang, Kristine Y. Crous, John E. Drake, Teresa E. Gimeno, Catriona A. Macdonald, Richard J. Norby, Sally A. Power, Mark G. Tjoelker, David S. Ellsworth	2016	69
12	Negative extreme events in gross primary productivity and their drivers in China during the past three decades Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Weizhe Chen, Dan Zhu, Chunju Huang, Philippe Ciais, Yitong Yao, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Vanessa Haverd, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Markus Kautz, Sebastian Lienert, Danica Lombardozzi, Benjamin Poulter, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Vuichard, Anthony P. Walker, Ning Zeng	2019	62
13	Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns Global Change Biology ·Matthew E. Craig, Melanie A. Mayes, Benjamin N. Sulman, Anthony P. Walker	2021	60
14	Sphagnum physiology in the context of changing climate: emergent influences of genomics, modelling and host–microbiome interactions on understanding ecosystem function Plant Cell & Environment ·David J. Weston, Collin M. Timm, Anthony P. Walker, Lianhong Gu, Wellington Muchero, Jeremy Schmutz, A. Jonathan Shaw, Gerald A. Tuskan, J. M. Warren, Stan D. Wullschleger	2014	50
15	Are Terrestrial Biosphere Models Fit for Simulating the Global Land Carbon Sink? Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Christian Seiler, Joe R. Melton, Vivek K. Arora, Stephen Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein, Peter Anthoni, Daniel S. Goll, Atul K. Jain, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Danica Lombardozzi, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Vuichard, Anthony P. Walker, Wenping Yuan, Sönke Zaehle	2022	49
16	The physiological basis for estimating photosynthesis from Chla fluorescence New Phytologist ·Jimei Han, C. Y. Chang, Lianhong Gu, Yong‐Jiang Zhang, Eliot W. Meeker, Troy S. Magney, Anthony P. Walker, Jiaming Wen, Oz Kira, Sarah McNaull, Ying Sun	2022	48
17	A new process sensitivity index to identify important system processes under process model and parametric uncertainty Water Resources Research ·Heng Dai, Ming Ye, Anthony P. Walker, Xingyuan Chen	2017	48
18	Informing models through empirical relationships between foliar phosphorus, nitrogen and photosynthesis across diverse woody species in tropical forests of Panama New Phytologist ·Richard J. Norby, Lianhong Gu, Ivan C. Haworth, Anna M. Jensen, Benjamin L. Turner, Anthony P. Walker, J. M. Warren, David J. Weston, Chonggang Xu, Klaus Winter	2016	45
19	Identification of key parameters controlling demographically structured vegetation dynamics in a land surface model: CLM4.5(FATES) Geoscientific model development ·Elias Massoud, Chonggang Xu, Rosie A. Fisher, Ryan Knox, Anthony P. Walker, Shawn Serbin, Bradley Christoffersen, Jennifer A. Holm, Lara M. Kueppers, Daniel Ricciuto, Liang Wei, Daniel J. Johnson, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Charles D. Koven, Nate G. McDowell, Jasper A. Vrugt	2019	40
20	Dynamic global vegetation models underestimate net CO₂ flux mean and inter-annual variability in dryland ecosystems Environmental Research Letters ·Natasha MacBean, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, Philippe Peylin, Thomas E. Kolb, M. E. Litvak, P. Krishnan, Tilden P. Meyers, Vivek K. Arora, Vladislav Bastrikov, Daniel S. Goll, Danica Lombardozzi, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Anthony P. Walker, Sönke Zaehle, D. J. Moore	2021	40

About Anthony P. Walker

Anthony P. Walker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Soil Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 60 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (18 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (12 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (10 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (6 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.7k citations), Soil Science (454 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (450 citations), Atmospheric Science (650 citations) and Ecology (737 citations). Anthony P. Walker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Stan D. Wullschleger, J. M. Warren, Colleen M. Iversen, Richard J. Norby, Paul J. Hanson, Lianhong Gu, F. I. Woodward, Martin G. De Kauwe, Tomas F. Domingues and Sönke Zaehle. Their work appears in journals such as New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, Geoscientific model development, Nature Communications and Biogeosciences.

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